Tuesday, July 16, 2013

RVA dining in 6 days

We recently hosted a friend from the Western half of the country, who was visiting RVA for a week. This occasioned for the classic conundrum– finite time to cover the best possible eating subset.
Coming up with a shortlist, we had two criteria (other than good food of course) – capturing some of the essence of RVA, and offering different tastes from what one could find elsewhere. These caveats meant that a couple of really good places (some sub-cuisines as well as entrants/stalwarts on the scene that fell into that all-encompassing “modern American” category) were out.
Within our admittedly narrow parameters, the end result was the following:
Croaker's Spot
The Roosevelt
Heritage
Mama J’s
Alamo BBQ
Buz and Neds, Ipanema and sundry MCV food carts for the working lunch
Bar visits at the Jefferson, Can Can and Secco.
  
Thematically predictable perhaps, but other than possibly one misstep, I think we did pretty well overall.

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